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+#+SETUPFILE: ../org-templates/level-1.org
+#+TITLE: Linux Room
+#+BACKGROUND_IMAGE: images/linux_background.png
+#+SHITTYWEB_HEADER: <img src="images/flying_tux.gif" alt="Tux the penguin flying"/>
+
+* Why linux
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: why-linux
+   :END:
+I have always liked being able to customize, mod, and poke inside
+different things. Computers are machines for us to play around with and
+use how we see fit yet the only thing the big tech companies want to do
+it lock everything up and it disgusts me. Fuck google, fuck microsoft,
+fuck apple, and fuck all the other evil tech companies!!! Its time for
+the open source revolution and seize them all and open source the entire
+world!!! Without linux or any other unix life would be much much worse.
+Linux is my safe place from all the shit in the world.
+
+[[file:images/windows_kills_kittens.jpg]]
+
+* Distros
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: distros
+   :END:
+I will distro hop a bit though for the most part I like to stay with the
+same distro and just change DE's or WM's. For the longest time I just
+switched to a different fedora spin every so often. Now I use arch
+because I got tired of fedora and couldnt find a distro I liked so I
+switched to arch to make it feel the way I want.
+
+** Guides
+    :PROPERTIES:
+    :CUSTOM_ID: distro-guides
+    :END:
++ [[file:distro-guides/arch.org][Arch (my daily driver)]]
++ [[file:distro-guides/xfce.org][Xfce DE]]
++ [[file:distro-guides/fedora.org][Fedora xfce (my old daily driver)]]
+
+** Cool distros
+    :PROPERTIES:
+    :CUSTOM_ID: distro-list
+    :END:
+/Not including the guides/
+
++ [[https://antixlinux.com][AntiX]]
++ [[https://mxlinux.org][MXLinux]]
++ [[https://salixos.org][SalixOS]]
++ [[https://www.adelielinux.org][Adelie]]
+
+* GUI apps
+  :PROPERTIES:
+  :CUSTOM_ID: gui
+  :END:
+A lot of linux users dont like GUI apps. I think they are great
+[[https://digdeeper.club/articles/design.xhtml][when they are done right]].
+
+** Claws mail
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: claws
+   :END:
+I have used thunderbird in the past though like I said before
+[[https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml][mozilla is evil as fuck]].
+Through the power of actually following the unix philosophy and
+not being full of javascript bullshit claws is about the safest email
+client out there. Gone are the days of just clicking a email being
+enough to fuck you over. Anyways you likely noticed that claws just
+displays everything in plain text. I like using the dillo plugin for a
+nicer view, and guess what? Still no shitty javascript that can get you
+fucked!
+
+** Emacs
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: emacs
+   :END:
+*Don't use emacs. Its stupido.*\\
+\\
+That is and will always be true but lately as of writing this I been bit
+by the emacs bug. Using emacs is so bad and so wrong but feels so good
+to use. I defeated rsi by doing hand exercises for nearly a year and a
+half as of writing this. I had to learn the hard way being a guitarist
+and emacs user while taking CS classes and writing code all the time
+wasnt a good idea. Now I play bass to but it balances out because I
+switched over to IT and became too lazy to write code most of the time.
+I lost my lite weight hand exercise tools and instead of buying new ones
+I just started using the heavy ones for hours at a time until I had *the
+grip strength to crush a human skull*. Now my rsi is cured /as long as I
+keep up the exercises/.\\
+\\
+I dont use doom emacs, spaceacs... or any of that bullshit. Just good old
+gnu emacs with a simple config and a hand full of plugins.\\
+Some of my favorite are:
+
++ Ivy: it makes emacs feel a bit nicer without completely changing it by
+  much.
++ Company with eglot: a easy way to add good auto-complete and lsp
+  support. It doesnt bloat the system up too much and it adds much
+  faster and better auto-complete then what any standard ide has and it
+  doesnt get in the way.
++ nyan-mode: this plugin will change your life. Emacs isnt even usable
+  without it. This plugin is the biggest reason I use emacs. Take that
+  vim users!
+
+*Fun fact: I use emacs to work on this site.*
+
+** SpaceFM
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: spacefm
+   :END:
+For the longest time I just used thunar because its decent and default
+in xfce though I decided to give spaceFM a try as of writing this. I
+might got annoyed of it in a week and ditch it or end up really liking
+it. These kinds of things tend to go either way for me. I will either
+fucking hate it or wonder how I ever lived without it.\\
+Update: After using it for a little bit I really dig it and never want
+to go back.
+
+*** Encrypted partitions in spaceFM
+    :PROPERTIES:
+    :CUSTOM_ID: encrypted-partitions-in-spacefm
+    :END:
+SpaceFM doesnt support encrypted partitions by default but lucky for us
+its very customizable. To get encrypted disks working I use udisks2 and
+udiskie.
+
++ Install udisks2 and udiskie.
++ Go to xfce session and startup than add the command =udiskie -s= as a
+  autostarted app. The -s option makes udiskie show a tray icon and hide
+  it when there arent any disks. -t will show the tray all the time and
+  by default udiskie will not show a tray.
++ In spaceFM go to Devices->Settings->Device Handlers and add a new
+  handler: [[file:images/udiskie_in_spacefm.jpg]]\\
+  Whitelist: =crypto_LUKS=\\
+  Mount: =udiskie-mount %v=\\
+  Unmount: =udiskie-umount $(lsblk -n -o MOUNTPOINT %v)=
+
+*** sftp
+    :PROPERTIES:
+    :CUSTOM_ID: sftp
+    :END:
+Spacefm uses sshfs for sftp support. Once you install it you will be
+ready to rock. Though for my use case I need symlink support. sshfs
+needs to have the option =-o follow_symlinks= To support symlinks.
+To add the option go to Devices->Settings->Protocol Handlers->ssh and
+change the mount option to:
+#+begin_src shell
+  #!/bin/bash
+
+  [[ -n "$fm_url_user" ]] && fm_url_user="${fm_url_user}@"
+  [[ -z "$fm_url_port" ]] && fm_url_port=22
+  echo ">>> sshfs -o follow_symlinks -p $fm_url_port $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a"
+  echo
+  # Run sshfs through nohup to prevent disconnect on terminal close
+  sshtmp="$(mktemp --tmpdir spacefm-ssh-output-XXXXXXXX.tmp)" || exit 1
+  nohup sshfs -o follow_symlinks -p $fm_url_port $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a &> "$sshtmp"
+  err=$?
+  [[ -e "$sshtmp" ]] && cat "$sshtmp" ; rm -f "$sshtmp"
+  [[ $err -eq 0 ]]  # set error status
+
+  # Alternate Method - if enabled, disable nohup line above and
+  #                    uncheck Run In Terminal
+  # # Run sshfs in a terminal without SpaceFM task.  sshfs disconnects when the
+  # # terminal is closed
+  # spacefm -s run-task cmd --terminal "echo 'Connecting to $fm_url'; echo; sshfs -p $fm_url_port $fm_url_user$fm_url_host:$fm_url_path %a; if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo; echo '[ Finished ] Press Enter to close'; else echo; echo 'Press Enter to close (closing this window may unmount sshfs)'; fi; read" & sleep 1
+#+end_src
+
+** mpv
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: mpv
+   :END:
+I switched to mpv because vlc was acting weird with audio sometimes when
+watching anime and nothing in this world is worse then something getting
+in the way of anime time! Just like lite-xl and neovim mpv uses lua for
+its config files and is really simple by default. It also can play
+youtube videos or other online streams just by giving it a url.
+
+** Liferea
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: liferea
+   :END:
+Feed readers are one of those things I use on and off. A lot like mail
+clients feed readers tend to be very bloated. Liferea is my favorite but
+it has always had issues with nvidia drivers until I found out a
+trick.\\
+\\
+If liferea has issues add this to your /etc/environment and reboot\\
+=WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1=\\
+\\
+Some cool tricks:
+
++ Get [[https://github.com/shevabam/get-rss-feed-url-extension][this
+  plugin]] to find feeds easier.
++ You can turn youtube channels into rss feeds with
+  =https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel_id}=\\
+  This can be done for all your subscriptions with
+  [[file:scripts/youtube_subs_export.py][this script]]
++ You can drag and drop youtube urls from your feed reader into mpv so
+  you can keep up with your subscriptions without even touching
+  youtube's website.
+
+** ePDFViewer
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: epdfviewer
+   :END:
+I wanted a pdf viewer that was light weight and simple. Being a xfce
+user I wanted something that isnt tied to another DE and doesnt uses a
+hell ton of dependencies.
+
+* Web browsers
+  :PROPERTIES:
+  :CUSTOM_ID: browsers
+  :END:
+Modern browsers are some of the worse things to every happen. These are
+some of the better options out there.\\
+\\
+For some resources on browsers check out
+[[https://spyware.neocities.org/articles][spyware watch dog]] and
+[[https://digdeeper.club/articles/browsers.xhtml][dig deeper]].\\
+\\
+For addons stay away from the mozilla or google bullshit and instead use
+something like [[https://gnuzilla.gnu.org][the gnuzilla thingy]]. You
+can also find addons on [[https://mybrowseraddon.com][mybrowseraddon]]
+than manually install them or something along those lines.\\
+\\
+For a dark mode addon *stay away from darkreader*. Dont know if its
+spyware or not but when the browser starts up it makes a bunch of
+requests which is something a dark mode plugin shouldnt do. Instead use
+something like
+[[https://gnuzilla.gnu.org/extension.php?id=786990][dark-mode]].
+
+** Icecat
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: icecat
+   :END:
+I use to use firefox but switched to librewolf because
+[[https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml][mozilla is evil as
+fuck]]. If you don't know librewolf it its the ungoogled-chromium of
+firefox. Than I switched from librewolf to icecat.\\
+\\
++The builtin plugins are decent. Librejs and its other contend blocking
+plugins are way more annoying than something like umatrix but I am
+giving them a fair chance knowing that umatrix might not have much of a
+future even if its still quite functional still. I still like to install
+ublock even with everything that comes builtin.+\\
+So I got annoyed of librejs and other builtin plugins in icecat. Now I
+just disable them because umatrix and ublock can do way more, except
+jshelter: It is a api spoofer which is different from the others which
+are contend blockers. Its useful for when you have to use javascript
+heavy websites but still want to prevent alot of information from being
+leaked. I set ublock to disable javascript by default and I set jshelter
+to strict mode by default.\\
+\\
+Fun little trick: If video playback/youtube frame breaks on a website
+just throw it into mpv to stream it from there. Sometimes to find the
+media you can hit ctrl+i to pull up page info and use the media section
+or in some cases you might have to dig around in the inspector.
+
+*** Installing
+    :PROPERTIES:
+    :CUSTOM_ID: installing
+    :END:
+You can find some newer builds [[https://icecatbrowser.org][here]]. The
+offical version can be found
+[[https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla][here]].
+
+*** Hardening
+    :PROPERTIES:
+    :CUSTOM_ID: hardening
+    :END:
+The magic of icecat is it makes zero requests to mozilla but its not too
+hardened so you might wanta use a user.js. Check out
+[[https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js][pyllyukko user.js]].
+
+** Palemoon and Basilisk
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: xul
+   :END:
+[[https://www.palemoon.org][Palemoon]] is a old firefox fork that uses a
+different rendering engine so it can keep up with newer webstandards
+while stilling keeping the old interface and support older plugins.
+[[https://www.basilisk-browser.org][Basilisk]] use to be developed by
+moonchild and was designed to be kind of like palemoon but based off a
+bit newer version of firefox. The basilisk team broke off and is now
+seprate from moonchild but still keeps in close contact with them.\\
+\\
+What version you choose is really up to you and what interface you like
+more. Both of them are going to struggle to use javascript heavy
+websites but its ok its I prefer disabling javascript whenever possible
+and using umatrix to only let in what the site needs to function.
+
+*** Hardening
+    :PROPERTIES:
+    :CUSTOM_ID: hardening-1
+    :END:
+Even though they are about as good as browsers get these days the
+developers are still stupidos so you should
+[[https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/palemoon][follow this guide]].
+Its also best you disable webrtc (only basilisk even supports webrtc out
+of the two) and webgl along with other hardening because even though
+they are based off older versions of firefox they still support the
+modern features that make it easier for sites to fucking fingerprint
+you. Basilisk is the only one that supports webrtc out of the two.\\
+\\
+To help hardened get yourself
+[[https://git.nixnet.services/Narsil/palemoon_user.js][a palemoon
+user.js]]. It helps you stand out less by hiding the fact you are using
+a weird old ass browser. Btw, for whatever fucking reason this user.js
+seems to brick github issue pages so just keep that in mind. Though if
+anything this just is another reason why real git sites like gitea and
+codeberg are better.\\
+\\
+You can timezone spoof by setting =TZ=UTC= before launching:
+#+begin_src shell
+  sudo -s
+  rm -rf /usr/bin/palemoon
+  echo "#! /usr/bin/sh\nTZ=UTC /usr/lib/palemoon/palemoon \$@" > /usr/bin/palemoon
+  chmod +x /usr/bin/palemoon
+#+end_src
+Basilisk users can come up with their own hack instead of having their
+hands held and gently walked through
+
+** Ungoogled chromium
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: ungoogled
+   :END:
+Ungoogled chromium is what the name says, chromium without the google. I
+still prefer to avoid anything chromim but if you really want to use a
+chromium based browser without all the spyware shit you arent going to
+get any better than this. It hella beats brave *brave is fucking
+terrible*. There is a addon that lets you install addons from the chrome
+store and update them without having to sign into google but I still
+think the best option is just to manually install the addons to
+completely avoid google.\\
+\\
+Ungoogled chromium isnt hardened at all by default. Its designed to be a
+drop in replacement for chrome that is user friendly and doesnt break
+anything. We dont do that here, for heaven fucking shake at least harden
+it a little and to do that you can use
+[[https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/docs/flags.md][these
+flags]].\\
+\\
+With manifest v2 on the way out the future of chromium based browsers is
+fucked. Mozilla is also doing shitty things so we are just in general
+fucked.
+
+** librewolf
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: librewolf
+   :END:
+Librewolf is about the easiest way to get a decent hardened browser
+setup. It still makes some requests to mozilla which kind of sucks.
+
+* Command line
+  :PROPERTIES:
+  :CUSTOM_ID: commandline
+  :END:
+Yes, the terminal is a GUI program. But I put it here because *fuck
+you*.\\
+\\
+For a cool command line I use nerd fonts. My favorite is the hack nerd
+font which can be installed with:
+#+begin_src shell
+  wget https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.3.0/Hack.zip
+  unzip Hack.zip -d Hack
+  sudo cp -r Hack /usr/share/fonts/
+#+end_src
+More nerd fonts can be found [[https://www.nerdfonts.com][here]].
+
+** Alacritty
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: alacritty
+   :END:
+I only started using it very recently because I been using kitty for a
+long time. I switched to alacritty because ssh in kitty is fucked up and
+I found out that alacritty now has a option for toml files for the
+config. The yml files was one of the biggest things keeping me away from
+alacritty.
+
+** zsh
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: zsh
+   :END:
+zsh is pretty cool though I been playing with fish a bit and been
+thinking of switching to that. zsh has lots of cool things like vi keys
+(even though I use emacs) and is somewhat compatable with bash to.
+
+** vim
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: vim
+   :END:
+For a long time I used neovim. I started using neovim becaues I wanted
+vim to act more like a ide and have fancy shit. For most things I ended
+up using +lite-xl+ emacs more because well... emacs just make my autism
+happy. Neovim ended up just being used for editing configs, quickly
+throwing together scripts, crazy vim wizard edits... so I decided to
+just ditch neovim (you can find my old config
+[[https://gitea.com/nathansmithsmith/nvim_config][here]]) and instead go
+with a simple vimrc with only a few plugins.\\
+\\
+*/How dare someone use both emacs and vim!/* Shut your fucking piehole
+stupido!
+
+* Extras
+  :PROPERTIES:
+  :CUSTOM_ID: extras
+  :END:
+These are programs I at one point used, dont use much... that I wanted
+to add.
+
+** lite-xl
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: lite-xl
+   :END:
+I started using lite-xl because I wanted a simple little easy to config
+graphical text editor. lite-xl is just that. I no longer have a need for
+it as I get into emacs again as of writing this but still a great little
+editor.\\
+\\
+On different screen sizes lite-xl may look bad and to fix it you need to
+set the =LITE_SCALE= environment variable.
+
+** vlc
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: vlc
+   :END:
+Yes, mpv is better. Yes, vlc sometimes has issues. But vlc is still
+better than the default media player on most systems and has its fair
+share of useful features. Even with mpv I still like to have vlc
+installed just in case mpv breaks when I dont have internet and I like
+its file converting features. The mobile version of vlc kicks ass.
+
+** Evolution
+   :PROPERTIES:
+   :CUSTOM_ID: evolution
+   :END:
+Evolution is one of the better mail clients out there. If for whatever
+reason you need to use gmail or some other locked down shitty service
+evolution has you covered. By default it uses the gnome style window
+decorators but unlike most gnome apps it lets you use your desktop/WM
+decorators instead. Its not as bad as most mail clients (looking at you
+thunderbird) and it lets you /at least/ hide most of that shit out of
+the way.